Thursday, August 6, 2009

Are you shitting me, Outside Lands festival?

There was no way I was going to go to the Outside Lands festival anyway, after hearing the horror stories from last year about the crowds and hour-long waits for beers and not being able to see anything. It sounded like a nightmare clusterfuck and I wouldn't have any part in it.

Then they announced this year's lineup, and it was so laughably bad that I thought "There's no way they could fuck this up any worse." The headliners were Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, and the Beastie Boys. Like, what the fuck is this, 1995?

(DISCLAIMER - Admittedly, some of the other acts on the bill I wouldn't mind seeing, like TV on the Radio, Deerhunter, M.I.A., and Calexico, but I'd much rather see all of them in a club or small venue somewhere.)

Oh, and you know who else is on the bill on Saturday, the night that fucking DMB is headlining? The BLACK EYED PEAS. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU SUCK AT MUSIC OUTSIDE LANDS.

Anyway, then Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys caught the cancer and they had to back out and so Outside Lands had to go find another headliner. Here's a chance to really score a great band and make the festival worth seeing, right?

Say what you will about Tenacious D's joke-rock. It's fine for what it is. What it ISN'T is something that's going to make people go "Oh wow, I totally have to go to Outside Lands now! Tenacious D! That's a festival headliner, for sure!"

I realize that summer's almost over and most artists are already booked and it's a last-minute thing, but c'mon.

3 comments:

OK, you are going to hate me ... I love the Dave Matthews Band. I love the Beastie Boys. And, I love Tenacious D. I would pay (and have paid) to see all of those bands.

I ask, "Are you shitting me, Outside Lands Festival?" because the ticket prices are so goddamn high! I make a decent living, and I'm not willing to shell out almost $100 for a ticket to a concert that involves long lines for restrooms and overpriced beer and food and -- maybe, just maybe -- a chance to see the bands that I'm actually paying to see.

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TK lives and works in San Francisco. He occasionally travels to places east of the Caldecott Tunnel, but not very often. His interests include bars, reality TV, and irony. Things seem to be going fine.